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Moments in November

In 4LTR WORD: HOME, Buffington Pop by Laura Buffington

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For my sister, Kris Reffett: 12/13/68–11/4/04

There are moments in November
when the old loss becomes new again.
Like someone arranged the calendar to say,
“Meet with grief today.
Remember the day her heart stopped beating.
Remember the day yours somehow kept going.”
Suddenly we were a home divided
with some of us grieving around a table
and her laughing somewhere around another.
Every November since,
I think of how I tried to sing like her.
Laugh like her. Love my friends like her.
How I will someday likely suffer like her.
And I will know how to go bravely because of her.
And every year when the gray skies
meet the every-colored leaves,
I wonder if we are next to nothing
Or everything.
If it matters we are here.
If we will really meet her in a There.
And Yet
I remember
Wherever we are,
It is Home while it lasts.

Photo (Flickr CC) by travel oriented

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Laura Buffington is the Spiritual Formation Pastor at SouthBrook Christian Church near Dayton, Ohio and an adjunct professor at Cincinnati Christian University. She grew up in Columbus, Ohio but spent some good years in Tennessee at Milligan College and Emmanuel Christian Seminary. In 2013, Christian Standard named Laura one of the “Top 40 Under 40 Leaders.” While "Christian" shows up a lot in her life story and résumé, she wrestles a lot with faith and loves good conversations with people who see the world differently.